The U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered carrier, USS Ronald Reagan, arrives at Naval Base Kitsap Tuesday to begin a one year maintenance and upgrade at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. The photo above shows the 1,092 foot-long near the Point No Point lighthouse north of Kingston as it travels south toward Seattle and […]
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Seattle’s most controversial pastor just gave his critics more ammunition. Mark Driscoll, the head of the ever-expanding Mars Hill Church, is under criticism for a book he wrote with his wife, Grace. “Real Marriage: The Truth about Sex, Friendship and Life Together” was released last week. Since then, it has been called “full of misogynistic […]
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For decades, the slogan was “It’s in the P-I,” but today – in a second collection of previously unpublished photographs – we share a few things that weren’t. In 2009, seattlepi.com began digitizing thousands of archive images that were previously saved only as hard copies. That collection, which has been stored at the P-I offices […]
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Seattle is the nation’s fifth “gayest city,” according to a strange and fascinating list found on Advocate.com.

The site used an unorthodox methodology for determining its annual “Gayest Cities” list, factoring in characteristics such as WNBA teams, nude yoga classes and number of International Mr. Leather semifinalists from each location.

In case you’re wondering, Seattle did score a point for nude yoga. (No girls allowed at those classes.)

One of the leading causes of death among cell phones — the one that ends with a splash and an “ewww!” — might soon be cured.

The race is on to make phones that recover when when dropped in the toilet, sink, bathtub or any other vessel filled with water. Three start-up companies are neck-and-neck in the battle to debut a thin, impermeable coating that will finally make phones water resistant.